Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by nothrabannosir on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:15PM (#16304642)

Get ebooks and read.

[edit] sorry for being curt, but seriously: that can be all there is to it. It changed the way I use my phone.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by fma on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:37PM (#16304766)

Nah, I didn't think you were curt. This was my solution for a while. Problem is when I read I hate to stop mid sentence or paragraph. While if on FB, or HN I can close without a care. I may need to take up less serious reading material I guess, hah. I will probably go back to this, though.

Any books you can recommend that helps fill those few minutes of void?

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by yesenadam on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:19PM (#16305268)

Aphorisms are good for that! I don't have a phone, but e.g. I've been reading The Art of Worldly Wisdom (17th C Spanish book) as a toilet book for a year or more, it's wonderful. I have a tiny book version, maybe 6x4x1cm. It's all in little sections of a half-dozen lines, great for reading 20 seconds or a couple of minutes at a time. An e-version would be great too I guess. So much wisdom in that book.

Also other aphorists - La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere, Lichtenberg etc. La Rochefoucauld is savagely dark and funny about you (yes, you); La Bruyere similar but sunnier, fairer; Lichtenberg's kind of like an 18th C hacker writing - a scientist/mathematician writing his little thoughts about everything.

Almost all of Nietzsche's writing is in aphorisms or short paragraphs, he'd be great for that. I find him endlessly fascinating on a thousand subjects, and very funny too.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by fma on Monday February 05, 2018 @12:18AM (#16306784)

Thanks. I just got the art of worldly wisdom. Had $2 of Amazon digital credits to spend and the Kindle version is $2 :)

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by nothrabannosir on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:49PM (#16304837)

For light reading, I recommend:

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, by Mil Millington: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Girlfriend-Have-Argued-About...

and form the acting world (but these are totally great to read on their own) I can recommend:

Awkward Conversations With Animals I've Fucked by Rob Hayes: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Awkward-Conversations-Animals-Fucke...

and The Truth, by Florian Zeller: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Truth-Florian-Zeller-ebook/dp/B01CV... (side splitting performance in London two years ago)

and if you're into it: http://www.hpmor.com/ . A bit fringe, but worth a shot if you've read the original books.

All of these are lighthearted and fun.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by TheAceOfHearts on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:01PM (#16306318)

Another option is reading web comics or manga. For me those tend to be easier to consume during shorter periods of time than ebooks.

When I'm reading I like being able to sit down and really get into it.

I'll usually end up on Hacker News if there's nothing on my queue, though. But HN is largely content focused.

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